Robert D. Putnam is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard, where he teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses. Professor Putnam is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the British Academy, and past president of the American Political Science Association. In 2006, Putnam received the Skytte Prize, one of the world's highest accolades for a political scientist. Raised in a small town in the Midwest and educated at Swarthmore, Oxford, and Yale, he has served as Dean of the Kennedy School of Government.
He has written fourteen books, translated into twenty languages, including the best-selling Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, and more recently Better Together: Restoring the American Community, a study of promising new forms of social connectedness. His previous book, Making Democracy Work, was praised by the Economist as "a great work of social science, worthy to rank alongside de Tocqueville, Pareto and Weber." Both Making Democracy Work and Bowling Alone are among the most cited publications in the social sciences worldwide in the last half century.
Why do some democratic governments succeed and others fail? In a book that has received attention from policymakers and civic activists in America and around the world, Robert Putnam and his collaborators offer empirical evidence for the importance of "civic community" in developing successful institutions. Their focus is on a unique experiment begun in 1970 when Italy created new governments for each of its regions. After spending two decades analyzing the efficacy of these governments in such fields as agriculture, housing, and health services, they reveal patterns of associationism, trust, and cooperation that facilitate good governance and economic prosperity.
今天看完了从政治学角度研究社会资本问题的名著---《使民主运转起来》,感觉还不错,不光大量的调查资料让人敬佩和信服,但就对问题的分析来说也是非常精辟的。这本书虽然翻译的不是很好,但还是非常容易理解的,得出的结论也很有说服力。本书的缘起是作者抓住意大利开始地...
评分初看帕特南教授所著《使民主运转起来:现代意大利的公民传统》的书名便觉得惊讶,一是因为“民主”一词在中国拥有与西方不同的意义,我不知读一本西方学者所著关于“民主”的书是否有助于了解中国政治或是国际关系;惊讶原因之二是与“民主”相对应的不是美国或者英国,而是地...
评分Web 2.0与民主绩效 ---读帕特南《使民主运转起来》有感 刚看到书名“使民主运转起来”的时候就有点不太明白,看完才知道民主运转讲得是民主绩效,换种说法,即按书中所说一个好的民主的政府不仅需要考虑它的公民的需求(即,回应性),而且要对这...
评分今天看完了从政治学角度研究社会资本问题的名著---《使民主运转起来》,感觉还不错,不光大量的调查资料让人敬佩和信服,但就对问题的分析来说也是非常精辟的。这本书虽然翻译的不是很好,但还是非常容易理解的,得出的结论也很有说服力。本书的缘起是作者抓住意大利开始地...
评分# 如果不是对civic tradition感兴趣,这本书可以花三个小时就读完。经验材料的编排以当时的标准来看算精细,但是给人感觉是硬套上去的,讲历史渊源没写出活泼劲儿来。这本书还是比较少强调civic tradition对于发展和民主起作用的conditionality,不过civic tradition的几个要点,平等、包容、替别人考虑等等,确实就是民主得以运转的关键。现代社会不一定意味着community到society,作者试图说明在现代社会里可以建立基于自由平等关系的community。我很喜欢这个理想,今后可以自称communitarian liberals,哈哈。
评分因研究civic society细细读了两天。研究political culture的经典范本,讨论civic traditions对institutional performance的作用,理论格局和实证的对接做的很好,但似乎并没有排除economic development对civic associations的影响,最后落回到communitarianism时也不能论证liberalism就不会带来civic bonds.
评分it's such an honor to have witnessed a history like that and figured something more than history out of it.though the binary opposition could sometimes went too far to be persuasive. an excellent research of how participant observation could be done.
评分从视野格局和经验材料上讲堪称完美。唯一有一个不太对劲之处是微观的机制和宏观的相关之间的联系似乎论证得不够强。微观的社会资本和微观的合作之间的因果机制很清楚,宏观的地区civic tradition和地区治理效率之间的相关也很清楚,但是小的association的作用如何传导到宏观的民主化呢?public-spiritedness&egalitarian value spawned by networks of civic engagement大概是传导带,可是具体怎么传导的没有详细说明。不过当然开创性作品也不能把事情都做完了……
评分看着都这么累 真研究起来得有多烦
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